. Young folk's history of the war for the union . ing the greatestexcitement, and plunderingand destroying j)ublic prop-erty as he went. He cuttelegraph wires, burned rail-way bridges and tore uprails, and advanced so nearto Cincinnati as to causegreat fear lest he should at-tack it. At the same timeGeneral N. B. Forrest, thesame who escaped Avitli hiscavalry from Fort Donelson, made a raid through Tennessee,captured at Murfreesboro General T. L. Crittenden and a largequantity of stores, and seriously threatened Nashville. When General Buell moved toward Chattanooga, GeneralBragg marched in th
. Young folk's history of the war for the union . ing the greatestexcitement, and plunderingand destroying j)ublic prop-erty as he went. He cuttelegraph wires, burned rail-way bridges and tore uprails, and advanced so nearto Cincinnati as to causegreat fear lest he should at-tack it. At the same timeGeneral N. B. Forrest, thesame who escaped Avitli hiscavalry from Fort Donelson, made a raid through Tennessee,captured at Murfreesboro General T. L. Crittenden and a largequantity of stores, and seriously threatened Nashville. When General Buell moved toward Chattanooga, GeneralBragg marched in the same direction on the other side of theTennessee Eiver. Bragg, who had about sixty thousand Avell-trained men, reached the goal first, and in the latter part ofAugust set out to invade Kentucky. His object in this was todraw off the Union forces from Western Tennessee and Ala-bama, and to take Louisville if possible. The advance of hisarmy, led by General E. Kirby Smith, entered Kentuckythrough the Cumberland Mountains from East Tennessee, and. Braxton Bragg. 308 BRAOG IN KENTUCKY.—MUBFREESBOBO. [1862. marched northward through the State. Near Richmond hefought a battle with a superior Union force under General Man-son. The Union troops, many of whom were raw volunteers,were defeated after a three hours fight and utterly routed,leaving nine pieces of artillery and ten thousand small-arms inthe hands of the enemy. The Confederate cavalry got in therear of the flying Unionists and took about five thousand pris-oners, among them being General Manson, who was pushed on rapidly with his victorious army to Lexing-ton. The people of the State were greatly alarmed, the Legis-lature fled from Frankfort to Louisville, and many of the bankssent their specie there for safety. Smith pressed on towardCincinnati, but fiuding that that city had been put in a thoroughstate of defence by General Lew Wallace, he turned to Frank-fort, the State capital, and waited the coming of B
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